The 10 Best Cities For Engineering Jobs

By their very nature, engineers look for the most efficient solution to any problem. So why not apply the same principle to choosing which city to move to?

SpareFoot crunched the numbers to find the best city for engineers to move to based on the following factors: job availability, median salary, median home price and median annual rent.

To determine job availability, we turned to Indeed, the world’s largest job site by users. Indeed provided the ten cities with the most job listings for engineers, along with average salary data.

We then ranked each city by its percentage share of job listings among the top ten cities. We also ranked each of the cities by median salary, salary as a percentage of home prices, and rent as a percentage of salary. Finally, we added up the rankings (giving double weight to job availability) to determine an overall ranking.

Want to take a deeper dive into industry statistics? Click here to check out more job trend data from Indeed.com. And if you’re moving to one of these cities and need storage, SpareFoot can help you compare by amenity, location, price, and more.

Alexander Harris is a reporter covering the business of self-storage. He obtained his degree in journalism from Virginia Commonwealth University. He loves reading Elmore Leonard novels and listening to classic country music. You can call him Al.

I don’t know how old the census data is you used but the median rent in San Francisco is currently three times what you cite, and the median home price is now $1 million.

jessegreathouse

Yes, the cost of living in San Francisco has been artificially inflated dramatically in very short years; Unfortunately wages have not proportionately increased as well, it is quite outrageous. There are quite a few stories of developers making $160k a year and barely making ends meet because of rapid inflation.